22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men In America

TEC ^ | 12-18-2012 | Michael Snyder

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually it’s ultimately parenting. I blame Dr. Spock for our ills, along with income tax. Total lack of discipline trickles down to schools.

[Bryanw92]

>>Maybe our sons are older than the “target group” of this article, but our three (ages 28-31) all served 4-5 years in the Marine Corps, own homes, two are married, one of which has a child, the other one on the way. All graduated high school, some college, one graduated college on the GI Bill.

They probably are. It seems like the ones who matured during the Obama years are the worst. Its like they know that there’s no point in growing up in a nation that is rigged for the white male to fail, or really to never even have a chance.

[blam]

"It’s not video games, it’s not Hollywood movies, it’s not music, it’s not the availability of weapons, it’s not that these white kids like to speak Ebonics."

I'd like to hear your ideas.(?)

[old and tired]

One answer is to get your son into the Boy Scouts. Make him stick with it long enough to do Philmont or some other high adventure activity.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Clearly this is the NRA’s fault

[factoryrat]

Single and divorced women, along with the militant feminists, do not know or want to know how to raise or handle boys. Instead, they medicate them, babysit them with video games and TVs, and marginalize them as revenge for their father's perceived shortcomings. I'm pissed because women get an automatic free pass on this behavior, while the fathers get marginalized and demonized for even attempting a modicum of discipline. I expect to get flamed here for my observation, so flame away. I grew up in a household where mom provided nurturing and learning, and dad provided guidance and discipline. I guess that isn't politically correct anymore.

[the OlLine Rebel]

It’s not a feminization problem, it’s discipline. Read the article and everything is directly related to being spoiled brats. It’s true for girls, too, but their tendencies are more reserved so you don’t see it as much.

It’s a Spock ting, I’m telling you. The chickens of all this permissiveness and milquetoast discipline are coming home.

It’s not because of us women, per se.

[OKRA2012]

We can compare American boys with boys in Canada, Europe and Australia as all have similar cultural, educational, economic and religious influences. But, for some reason their is a very small subset of these boys in the US that act out in far more violent ways than their peers.

They are male, middle upper class, white and usually highly intelligent. They are in an age group where schizophrenia and other psychological most often manifest.

With that, do we over-diagnose, under-diagnose, over-medicate or under-medicate?

I don’t know the answer, but I know the answer is much more difficult than video games or the emasculation of our young men.

[Blackirish]

I went to the Redbox last night and noticed how many games they are now renting. All of these games had a common theme how to kill people in different ways. Does anyone think this is good for the mind and soul? Spending hour after hour in a virtual world killing and maiming...anyone?

[Theoria]

'They are male, middle upper class, white and usually highly intelligent. They are in an age group where schizophrenia and other psychological most often manifest.'

I have wondered that. Besides the VT shooter, most school shooters, or 'non-terrorist' if ya like, is white? Correct?

[oh8eleven]

As a man who came of age in the 1950s ...
I'm like you - came of age in the 60s ... high school, Marines, college and eventually kids.
The thought of living at home until my mid 20s was NEVER a thought. I couldn't wait to get out and on my own.
Today, we have males - formally known as men - living in mommy and daddy's basements playing video games and they're still on their parents' h/c insurance until they're 26.
And we wonder WTF is wrong with America?

[beelzepug]

There are a few of us. I graduated in 1964. I worked and lived at home for a year, mainly because my dad had just passed away and mom needed help with the younger kids and the bills for awhile. Then it was the army for three years, marriage, work and college, and once we could afford them, our own house and kids.

That seemed pretty ordinary back then. I guess today it would be considered exceptional. I take some pride in being able to say that both of my sons are gainfully employed and married.

[I want the USA back]

Here we have the reason for the tragedy. Not guns. Not poor security at school.
Boys prevented from maturing normally by the feminist establishment.
Feminazis have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Boys are the subject of open discrimination in job applications, and college admissions. Whites especially get this unjust treatment.
Boys need a father. Feminazis have succeeded in doing away with fathers.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

There is something seriously wrong with SOME young men in America.

Always has been. The YMCA got its start in the mid 1800's when Christians got tired of stepping over and around lots of drunk young men who left the farm to work in factories. They lived a debauched life. Decades later the Temperance movement rose in response to reckless drinking.

The debauchery is one problem. Plain craziness is another. At one time we put the badly behaved into reform schools. We put crazy people into insane asylums. Now we put them all into the same schools as healthy people in the name of justice and immersion. The restraints have been lifted and the results come in terrifying atrocities.

[oh8eleven]

The spoiled baby boom generation ...
BS. We grew up with little more than our parents did, the biggest changes being cars and homes in the suburbs,
I got my first job at 12 delivering papers and retired 50 years later at 62. That included 3 years USMC and 13 months in VN.
So tell me you feckin' know it all, HTF were we spoiled? And tell the majority of MEN on this wall too.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Same here, but in the late 70’s. Graduation. Military. Marriage. Family. Never looked back.

My Dad (who I now care for) always says the thing he likes best about me as his daughter is that I left at 17 and never came back with my hand out or my tail between my legs. He raised me to be very independent. I still am.

I really DO feel for the men of my generation. They really got the shaft in SO many ways.

Maybe I’m part of the problem? *SHRUG* Never TRIED to keep a good man down. My only goal was to be on their same level in any endeavor I chose.

[Valpal1]

Canada, Europe and Australia have all had rampage killers. It is not even a modern phenomena. Rampage killers have always existed, same as serial killers.

[cyclotic]

As a Scoutmaster, I can offer no better advice. Get your boys in Scouts. We just took our troop to New Jersey to help with storm cleanup. THey see that the world is bigger than them and that men are needed.

[beelzepug]

You snot-noses always blaming the boomers piss me off. Not all of us were growing our hair long and smoking dope. oh8eleven has it exactly right.

[21twelve]

I went to a seminar on raising teens, and the guy had first practiced medical research, and now is a Christian counselor. He talked about how the research shows clinical data that “adolescence” in men on the average today extends to 28 years old - some researchers even say 32 years old.

This guy's theory is that we have lost the sense of “tribe” - or family. Adolescence is “figuring out who you are”. Back in Jesus’s time if you were 10 years old and someone asked you who you were you would say “I am of the tribe of Judah”, and know everything about your tribe from the stories, traditions, and being in close contact with your tribe/relatives/village.

That is why there was no adolescence back then. A girl gets her first period - she is an adult. And pretty soon was a mom too.

Now kids have no idea what is right, what to believe, who they are. The breakdown of the family leads to the ultimate breakdown of society. The influence of so many outside views makes it even harder. I know that my parents passed down some very traditional views, and I have tried to pass them down to my kids. I have an uncommon last name, and it is sort of a “tribal” (pride) thing trying to pass down the attributes of my father's name onto my kids.

But every day they are up against what most of the teacher's say, most of the kids, etc. (we live in a very liberal area). I am very proud of them though - they hold there own in the discussions. (Well - my one daughter it is more like arguments....!)